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12
Op.cit., at 38.
13
The reservation provides: “The Government of Australia ... declares that Australia is not at
present in a position specifically to treat as offences all the matters covered by article 4 (a) of the
Convention. Acts of the kind there mentioned are punishable only to the extent provided by the
existing criminal law dealing with such matters as the maintenance of public order, public
mischief, assault, riot, criminal libel, conspiracy and attempts. It is the intention of the
Australian Government, at the first suitable moment, to seek from Parliament legislation
specifically implementing the terms of article 4 (a).”
14
Hertzberg et al. v. Finland Case No. 61/1979, Views adopted on 2 April 1982.
15
Airey v. Ireland (A 32 para. 30 (1980)), Dudgeon v. United Kingdom (A 45 para. 67 (1981)),
Van der Mussele v. Belgium (A 70 para. 46 (1983)), The Belgian Linguistic Case (Merits)
(A para. 6 (1968)).
16
For full text of the provision, see footnote 2, supra.
17
Demba Talibe Diop v. France Case No. 2/1989, Opinion of 18 March 1991.
18
Valencia Rodriguez, L.: “The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination” in Manual on Human Rights Reporting Under Six Major International
Instruments, New York, United Nations, 1997, at 289.
19
See para. 4.4 and footnote 4, supra.
20
This evidence is supplied to the Committee.
21
Section 92 Lands Act 1994 (Queensland).
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